Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourgis a British-French actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. After making her musical debut with her father on the song "Lemon Incest" at the age of twelve, she released an album with her father at the age of fifteen. More than twenty years passed before she released three albums as an adultto commercial and critical success. Gainsbourg has also appeared in many films, including several...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth21 July 1971
CountryFrance
I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes.
I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.
My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.
I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.
It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make.
I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense.
The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.
I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.
Each time I changed, it was as if, on purpose, I didn't want anyone to know too much about me, which of course now I regret, because I closed myself to everything. But it was my way of dealing with things.
I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.
I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises.
I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky.
I don't have tons of scripts where I don't know what to choose and I'm trying to calculate. It's either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it's always been very obvious.
The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.